I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

Well, Don't know if the EXT thing is the issue, but, I reinstalled and chose reiserFS << don't know how good it is to be honest and I am now typing from a fully functional booting Mint.

Kind if weird that the RC worked for me and many others but not the final? Was something relating to the file system in anyway changed?I would suggest trying it to others with a different format option, just to see if we can find a common solution to offer others should the need arise.

Any advice on using this now with Reiser, do I have to bear anything in mind?

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

On software of any significant size, there exists bugs. I suggest you get used to it.

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

This is not a Mint-isolated problem. The same thing is happening with Ubuntu Hardy.

BTW, I reinstalled Elyssa and adding:"all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after "quiet_splash" in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

This is not a Mint-isolated problem. The same thing is happening with Ubuntu Hardy.

BTW, I reinstalled Elyssa and adding:"all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after "quiet_splash" in /boot/grub/menu.lst

And so far it works

What is the procedure for modifying /boot/grub/menu.lst when we are unable to boot into Linux? Do we use the text editor off of the live-cd?

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

This is not a Mint-isolated problem. The same thing is happening with Ubuntu Hardy.

BTW, I reinstalled Elyssa and adding:"all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after "quiet_splash" in /boot/grub/menu.lst

And so far it works

What is the procedure for modifying /boot/grub/menu.lst when we are unable to boot into Linux? Do we use the text editor off of the live-cd?

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

This is not a Mint-isolated problem. The same thing is happening with Ubuntu Hardy.

BTW, I reinstalled Elyssa and adding:"all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after "quiet_splash" in /boot/grub/menu.lst

And so far it works

What is the procedure for modifying /boot/grub/menu.lst when we are unable to boot into Linux? Do we use the text editor off of the live-cd?

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

On software of any significant size, there exists bugs. I suggest you get used to it.

I realize that bugs will alwas exist, and that's fine. Maybe I can't watch youtube or play mp3's or access my email or whatever, but being unable to boot my computer is in fact inexcusable. This being an LTS release makes it even more so.

Mint is supposed to be the most user friendly linux, a kind of way to ween pc users off of windows, but when they try an OS that isn't even going to boot for them do you think they'll check the forums and see if there's a solution? No, they'll probably just chuck the CD deciding that this is a garbage OS without even trying it.

"Getting used to it" really isn't a viable answer to most people's problems.

Its funny that I just reinstalled Ubuntu 8.04 on the same laptop that prompted this thread in the first place. Several days later and the only solution I've heard is to edit boot files. Hell no. That is not acceptable.

As for bugs, yes, software has them. However, the acceptable limitation is what's giving Vista a very bad name. I do not want to see the same happen to Linux or specifically Mint.

So where is the official Mint help here? Oh wait, they're focused on some root error in mintAssistant. I don't think I even want to get started on how bad of a solution that was.

Joe Mama wrote:I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. How is it that an LTS release that is supposedly rock solid stable is unable to even boot on so many machines? That's inexcusable. I'm really disappointed in the Mint team for this one. For now I'll stick with Daryna until this ridiculous bug is fixed.

On software of any significant size, there exists bugs. I suggest you get used to it.

I realize that bugs will alwas exist, and that's fine. Maybe I can't watch youtube or play mp3's or access my email or whatever, but being unable to boot my computer is in fact inexcusable. This being an LTS release makes it even more so.

Mint is supposed to be the most user friendly linux, a kind of way to ween pc users off of windows, but when they try an OS that isn't even going to boot for them do you think they'll check the forums and see if there's a solution? No, they'll probably just chuck the CD deciding that this is a garbage OS without even trying it.

"Getting used to it" really isn't a viable answer to most people's problems.

I apologize. I did not mean to come across as angry or judgmental. It is a fact, however, that all software has bugs.

I'll be away for a week so I won't be able to help much with that.. but it looks like it's a problem with the 2.6.24-16 kernel and your hardware. One of my box has the same issue.. the solution is to use kernel boot options.

To do it once: in the grub screen... choose 2.6.24-16-generic and edit the boot line to add "all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after "quiet_splash".

To do it permanently, edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, find the line for 2.6.24-16-generic and do the same in there.

On my box, adding "irqpoll" in the end of the boot line does the trick.. I don't need the other options, but some of you might, depending on your hardware. This new kernel is great but as with every new kernel we find we need new boot options to make it behave nicely... that's the trade off.. with innovation comes regressions.

Once everything is fixed I would recommend getting the new kernel from the repositories (mintUpdate level 4/5) and giving it a try to see if it works fine without any option.